the web performance conference 19-20 November 2026, Amsterdam

Schedule

Here is the conference schedule, including side events.

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Wednesday 18th: Real User Meeting

Like last year, the W3C RUM Community Group will meet in the Google Amsterdam offices from 12 to 3. This event is free, but registration is required.

Wednesday 18th: the pre-party

From 19:00 to midnight the official performance.sync() pre-conference meetup will take place in Desmet (same venue as last year), kindly sponsored by Mozilla. The meetup is free, but registration is required.

Thursday 19th and Friday 20th: the conference

The schedule is not 100% certain yet; changes are still possible.

The conference starts at 09:30 (doors open 08:30) and ends at 18:00, at which time we'll have drinks at the venue.

There will also be a live stream.

Time Thursday Friday
08:30Doors open, registration, coffee & tea
09:30Welcome words by our MCs, Robin & Jason
09:40Tammy EvertsPerformance is a journeyTim Kadlec
10:00Scott Jehl Standards from the Field Aleth Gueguen The web native APIs
10:50Break
11:30Martin MichálekSelling Web Performance Max Inden Save a round trip: optimizing for IETF's Happy Eyeballs v3
12:20Risko Ruus Performance regression testing Alex Russell TBD
13:10Lunch
14:40Pat Meenan Latest on Web Compression Cliff Crocker Core Mobile Vitals: Building the Missing Standard for Apps
15:30Tim Vereecke Beyond the P75 Stéphanie Walter Performance as a Design Opportunity
16:20Break
17:10Harry Roberts Jeremy Keith Long-term performance
18:00Closing words by our MCs
18:05Drinks, a bite & mingling Sponsored by Embrace

Saturday 21st: the post-party

On Saturday from 10am - 4pm there will be an informal post-conference hang, kindly sponsored by Framer, where you can tiredly chat with fellow attendees while waiting for your flight.

This meetup is also free, but registration is required. It is restricted to conference attendees.